It's only a problem if you apply it solely to women, though. If you don't mind any particularly agile character, including Spider-Man and Nightcrawler and the like, being posed like that, all it means is that you have a stylistic preference for or ambivalence towards extreme depictions of flexibility. While it's true that the industry in general doesn't pose agile, flexible men this way, and therefore it does indeed have a double standard, it is unfair to assume that this double standard is reflected in anyone who's okay with rubber spine females. You can't know they're not okay with rubber spine males until it actually comes up, and the fact that a rubber spine male is depicted and hyzmarca said "pose is fine, costume needs work" rather suggests the opposite.angelfromanotherpin wrote: I'm going to stop you right there. Because I want you to actually *look* at this first pose of the Huntress. I want you to actually figure out what her spine has to look like to facilitate that pose. Look at her senselessly arched back and off-center neck.
That you see that as 'perfectly reasonable' just tells me that you have become accustomed to accepting women posed like they're made out of rubber.
EDIT: Hyzmarca made a post while I was writing this one which provided rather more certainty about his opinion than this post stated, so I'm retracting the point.